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Rethinking Development and Decolonising Development Studies
The COVID-19 pandemic, which led to almost seven million deaths (WHO in Statistics on COVID-19, 2022), revealed the world to be even more complex and...
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Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals: Post-development Alternatives
This chapter argues that the Sustainable Development Goals are inadequate to solve the problems of global inequality and sustainability for several...
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Endogenous Development: Situating Kazuko Tsurumi’s Work in International Development
Endogenous development theory (naihatsuteki hattenron) by Kazuko Tsurumi frequently appears in Japanese development discourse. However, although the...
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Development and Post-development in a Time of Crisis
The field of development studies has always presented difficult challenges for policymakers, academics, practitioners, journalists and concerned...
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Development and Sustainability
This chapter focuses on four different roles of international organizations (IOs) in development: development lending, development assistance,...
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Sustainable Development Goals: An Inclusive Development Agenda
This chapter deliberates on the role of representative decision-making institutions and their relevance in achieving Sustainable Development...
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Social Development: Education
This chapter examines educational outcomes in Trinidad and Tobago (TT). Education is crucial for a country’s development, with strong influences on...
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Rural Development in Ghana
The Ghanian rural-urban imbalance in education, health facilities, infrastructure (roads), and standards of living is of great concern. The country’s...
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Development Negotiations
This chapter provides a background overview of the development-based partnership agreements that the EU has negotiated with its former colonies in...
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Global Development Plans
This chapter explores the Pacific region’s engagement with the UN’s global development initiatives—principally the Human Development Index (from...
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Development Economics and the Political Economy of International Development
This chapter focusses especially on (a) a broad intellectual overview of the evolution of development economics, (b) approaches to the analysis of...
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Development at Work Postcolonial Imaginaries, Global Capitalism, and Everyday Life at a Factory in Tunisia
Why did the postcolonial Tunisian state promise development? How do these promises reverberate in the hopes and dreams of Tunisians today? And how do...
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Multilateral Development Banks as Agents of Connectivity: the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
The article explores connectivity from the prism of multilateral development banks. It recognises that theorising on connectivity is increasing, but...
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Student Migration and Development A Case Study of a German Scholarship Program
How do international students and alumni contribute to development in their countries of origin? Is the development effect greatest when students...
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Development: Which Ideas Now?
The practice of development and foreign aid inevitably involves numerous languages and thus requires translation to each the meaning of terms and...
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Transnational Corporations and Globalisation: The Development of Development?
The chapter will reflect on the debate around the impact of transnational corporations (TNCs) on industrialisation and development in the Global...
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Official Turnover and Sustainable Development in China
Achieving sustainable development is an important goal for China’s economic transformation to high-quality development. Using the city-year panel...
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Challenging Global Development Towards Decoloniality and Justice
This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and...
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Five Development Concepts Guide Shanghai’s All-Round and Higher-Level Development
The communique of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee stated: “to achieve the development goals of the 13th Five-Year Plan...
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Twinning and development: a genealogy of depoliticisation
One of the latest methods being trialled across the development sector to help advance progress towards achievement of the Sustainable Development...